The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1

Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was revealed as a turncoat agent of the rebellion in spiriting Katniss away from the Games Arena at the conclusion of the last movie.

Now she is immediately set up by Plutarch to be a propaganda tool of President Coin (Julianne Moore) of the mysterious District 13. Which was long thought to be destroyed in the War by the other Districts. Katniss agrees to this with some conditions.

Meanwhile Peeta is returned to Capitol where he starts doing much the same for President Snow.

The rebellion is intensifying and both sides need their weapons.

This switches to a lot of following Katniss around doing pieces to camera or plotting in dingey bunker scenes.

Again the supporting cast buoy things up: Julianne Moore is excellent but it really suffers from being very dour. For all the grimness of the first two they were weird and varied with the absurd pastel crowds of Capitol, reality show punditry and strange hazards of the Arena.

This could be any number of quite generic futuristic war/rebellion stories but for the attachment you've made to the characters in the first two.

It does at least have a meaningful pause at the end rather than a cliff-hanger.

Diminishing returns 7/10.